Is Campus Activism DeadÂ â€” or Just Misguided?

By GRAHAM SPANIER

A President Wonders Where the Campus Radicals Are Now

With the average age of college presidents a hair above 60 years
old, a large portion of today's campus leaders were undergraduate
or graduate students during the heightened years of protest in the
1960s and early 1970s. As a student during those protest-laden
times, I spoke out about peace, the Vietnam War, civil rights, and
the status of women. But today, as a university president, I am
generally disheartened at the nature of